Re: 2.6.10-as1

[Andres Salomon <dilinger@voxel.net>]

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On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 20:11 +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Andres Salomon wrote:
> > I'm announcing a new kernel tree; -as.  The goal of this tree is to form
> > a stable base for vendors/distributors to use for their kernels.  In
> > order to do this, I intend to include only security fixes and obvious
> > bugfixes, from various sources.  I do not intend to include driver
> > updates, large subsystem fixes, cleanups, and so on.  Basically, this is
> > what I'd want 2.6.10.1 to contain.
> 
> After all of the recent discussion it's nice to see someone step up and do this :)
> Thanks a lot, I'm sure I will find it useful when producing gentoo's kernel 
> packages..
> 
> Just one suggestion- maybe could you distinguish security patches from 
> bugfixes? I.e. prepend or append the security patches with "sec" or something?
> 

I could certainly do that.  Right now, I mark them w/ [SECURITY] in the
changelog.


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Andres Salomon <dilinger@voxel.net>

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